Kargil Conflict 1999: Pakistan-India Kargil War
During the initial stages of the war, Pakistan said the fighting entirely on independent Kashmiri insurgents, but documents left behind…
KHABAR AWAAM KI
KHABAR AWAAM KI
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LoC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay, which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil sector. This war is the most recent example of high-altitude warfare in mountainous terrain, and as such posed significant logistical problems for the combating sides. It is also the sole instance of direct, conventional warfare between nuclear states. India had conducted its first successful test in 1974; Pakistan, which had been developing its nuclear capability in secret since around the same time, conducted its first known tests in 1998, just two weeks after the second series of tests by India.
During the initial stages of the war, Pakistan said the fighting entirely on independent Kashmiri insurgents, but documents left behind…